Communication’s tasks in a city state: Singapore’s unique experience

AbstractSingapore is a compact city state where taxi drivers are about as dynamic channels of communication as the mass media. This young nation builds itself and grows in close touch with the people for the city state is by nature mass conscious. This analysis of the peculiarities of mass communication in the city state traces historically the purposive and effective uses of the mass media, with radio and then of television, especially since the rise to power in 1959 of the People’s Action Party led by Mr. Lee Kuan Yew. Mass communication has played an essential part in getting the society together by shared experiences, in educating the people in both means and ends, and in motivating them to participate, adapt and advance.